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Political Fellini : Journey to the End of Italy / Andrea Minuz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782388197
  • 9781782388203
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.F45 M5413 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition: After The Great Beauty -- Acknowledgments -- Essential Chronology -- Introduction: Political Fellini? -- Chapter 1 Fellini and “Italian Ideology” -- Chapter 2 Mythical Biography of a Nation -- Chapter 3 La Dolce Vita and Its Relevance Today -- Chapter 4 Fellini, Mussolini, and the Complex of Rome -- Chapter 5 Fellini and Feminism -- Chapter 6 A Public Dream: Italy and Prova d’orchestra -- Chapter 7 You Don’t Interrupt an Emotion -- Appendix: The Divo and the Maestro Fellini in the Andreotti Archives -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition: After The Great Beauty -- Acknowledgments -- Essential Chronology -- Introduction: Political Fellini? -- Chapter 1 Fellini and “Italian Ideology” -- Chapter 2 Mythical Biography of a Nation -- Chapter 3 La Dolce Vita and Its Relevance Today -- Chapter 4 Fellini, Mussolini, and the Complex of Rome -- Chapter 5 Fellini and Feminism -- Chapter 6 A Public Dream: Italy and Prova d’orchestra -- Chapter 7 You Don’t Interrupt an Emotion -- Appendix: The Divo and the Maestro Fellini in the Andreotti Archives -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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